March 2009
1 post
Thoughts on webapps
Summary of my opinions on web apps:
1) Web apps are mostly a waste of time.
2) The web apps I actually use end up using provide a lot of day-to-day happiness (a long tail of sorts).
3) I think web apps are a close second in terms of the ratio between the amount of effort I spend trying new things and the reward I get. Music has the best ratio, web apps next, and then web site links, TV shows,...
February 2008
1 post
December 2007
2 posts
“We don’t generally experience chronic pain when the fine-grained features...”
– The Architecture of Happiness
“To design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know,...”
– The Architecture of Happiness
November 2007
14 posts
Adobe AIR Sucks
I went to a lunch hosted by Adobe about a month ago where they presented on Adobe AIR. It sounded like a promising idea. And now that I’ve begun to think more about the little things that would help me be a lot more productive, I think that separating web apps from web pages is at the top of my list. I use Gmail, Google Reader, Pandora, Google Docs, Basecamp, Highrise, Delicious, and...
“The only way to make Europeans happy is to make DNA-free food.”
– Dr. Craig Venter, on GMOs and politics
“Art is experience in terms of experience.”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist
Preparing for the interview has made me realize that learning is like painting a bridge. You start from one end and work your way towards the other, but by the time you’re working on the far side, you have to go back and touch up the first coat. It’s like when I learn more advanced math, I end up losing my basic counting skills. Unfortunately, this seems true for most types of...
Five years later, the salad bar strikes again. There are so many meetups and speakers in town. All my hobbies and interests are given the chance to explode. Writing feedback sessions, photowalks, tasting menus, author readings, live music, and more!
A cool Google reader feature would be a way of lumping together posts from different feeds that point to the same story. Maybe call the subsequent feeds “echoes” or something. This could be similiar to how conversations are handled in Gmail.
Scheduling is funny when you have the whole day week month free. On one hand, when you’re scheduling a meeting with someone who you’ve never scheduled with before, it would make things a lot easy if you just replied to their e-mail a second after it was sent and say “Look, I really don’t have *anything* scheduled this week. Pick anytime, day or night, and a location within...
Why does CocoaSQL make it so easy to blow away your database but so tedious to put it back together?
Fish is probably not a good first dish to cook in a newly minted bamboo steamer. Hopefully, boiling some jasmine tea will help the fishy smell go away.
Pandora Updates →
Pandora keeps on getting better! I’m not sure if I’ll be partaking in the social features yet, but I like the genre stations and the interface tweaks that makes it easier to organize stations (I have close to fifty). For me, Pandora is the one web2 company that makes all of the hubbub worth it.
“What kind of movie starts by giving away the ending of another movie!?!?”
“I find that most projects follow a “ski jump” happiness curve....”
– http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76052
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